Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-27
THE POPE OF ROME
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The Disciples Chapel, on South Market
street, was comfortably filed, last even
ing. upon which occasion Rev. n. L. At
wood, pastor Of the church, delivered the
second Of the series Of diseourses on the
foundation of Christian religion, which
are in answer to the Lenten series deliT-
cred by Bishop Kahn.
The reverend gentleman took for his text:
II. ThessAlonians ii. 1-12: Now we be
seech you, brethren, by the coming Of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
together unto Him, that We be not soon
shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither
by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter
as from Us, as that the day
of the Lord Is at hand. Let
no man deceive you by any means, for that
day shall not come except there come a fall
ing away first, and that man of sin be re-
yealed, the son of perditiOn, who opposeth
and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is WOrshipped, 50 that
he as God, stitch in the temple Of God,
showing himself that he is God. =
Even him whose coming is after the work
ing of Satan, with all power, and signs and
lying wonders.
1t Is the purpose, this evening, said the
speaker, to show that this language applies
to the Pope of Rome and to him only.
In the first chapter Of Acts We are told
that after His passion Jesus showed Him
self alive by many infallible proofs unto
the Apostles whom He had chosen" and
that when He had spoken certain things to
them HE was taken up and cloud re-
ceived Him out of their sight And while
they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as
He went up, behold two men stood BY
them in white apparel, which also said,
this same Jesus which is taken up from you
into heaven, shall so come in like manner
as We have seen Him 90 into heaven. y
This promise made to the Apostles that be
would return again, the Apostles repeated
to the early Christians to comfort them In
the terrible persecution they were suffering
under the pagan emperor of Rome. The
Apostle Paul repeats it to the Thessalonians
in the latter part of the fourth and IN the
commencement of the fifth chapter OF the
first epistle to their church.
From the opening words Of the second
chapter of the Second Epistle, it appears
that they had inferred from what the
I ah,N ., M
was to be looked for at that time, or IN the
immediate future. With an earnestness
unusual even for the Apostle Paul, he
warns them against this misapprehensiOn
and tells them that that day shall not
come except there come a falling away Ia
great apostacy) first" This apostacy, OF
falling away, which was to precede the
second coming of Christ, is described II
the words of our text.
He tells them that it has already COM
menced: The mystery of iniquity doth
already work. and reminds them that ht
had already told them what prevented it,
full development at that time, and thai
the preventing power would "be taken out
} Of the way"
The speaker here gave the proofs tina,
this power was pagan Rome, and explained
why the approaching downfall Of this pa
gan power was privately made known t.
the Christians, and why il was not pub
licly foretold, and why that man OF per
dition. - could not "be revealed" during
its existence. When the monster doe
appear he will be found ''sittiag IN the tenn
pIe OF God, Sso.Fiag himself that he Is God. .
We must first find the temple OF God
and know by infallible proofs when We
have found il that IL il the temple of God
and then see if any such abOminatiOn ha:
ever seated himself within it.
The same Apostle, writing to the Church
at Ephesus, says: aye are builded togethel
for a habitation Of God through the
Spirit" Eph. ri, -. He also says to the
! Church at COrinth: ''EnOg ye not that Y.
are the temple Of God, and that the Spirit o.
God dwelleth in you. If any man defilt
the temple Of God, him shall God destroy
for the temple of God is holy, 'rhich tempt,
us are" | Cor. iii, 1917. And again
II Cor. vi. Is: ''Ye are the temple of the
living ESG" Here we have many infal
lible proofs" that tne Church of Christ i:
the temple of God.
| Dt SPEAKER lucu CllNScu upOn liLt
characteristics of the MAN of Sin, " as de
scribed in the text, and asked who, in III,
church, has assumed these characteristics
No one, be answered, but The Vicar o
Christ, " Gods Vice-regent, " His Holi
ness, " ''The Infallible, "'His Holiness, the
Pope" His Holiness, Lord God the
Pope" He claims to be the head of the
church. He claims 10 be the foundation
of the church. He claims the power to re.
nit sins; and to retain sins, and to hold il
his possession the keys of the Kingdom o.
Heaven. He assumes all authority in the
church. and that he has the rightful au
thoity owes tGe sings Of the earth, and
even the right 10 regulate the aGtol o.
voters in the United States.
If, in addition to what has been offered,
final and conclusive proof Is wanted that
the Pope - Shat man of SIM" it can bt
found in the reports Of the Lentea seTmon:
of Bishop Kahn. He triumphantly claim:
that his is the only church organiza.
ton that can trace its origin back
to Apostolic timss. This claim is
admitted. It relieves US from the trouble
of looking anywhere but in that church
l lOE ! EAL aldI VI SlLl- 1AIal uldu VI STU
commenced his work in tbs days Of the
apostles The Catholic church commenced
its work in the days Of the apostles. The
work il has done Is exactly the work the
imam Of sin" was to do. The description
of the one is the description of the other.
The history Of the one is the history of the
other Neither ths description ner the
history OF either viii apply to anything
else that now exists, or that ever did ex-
ist, on the earth. The testimony Of
Prophets, Apostles, Bishops and historians
all combine 10 furnish "many infallible
proofs that that nan " sin'j End the
Pope of Rome are one snd inseparable.
GIDDY GIRLS